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LA 161-1087 '- JMB:kfh ' se e @-is deeply. concerned wi e _ people and -particularly their right to improve their - -Standara of living. Gescribed the — community of Delano, Ca ornia, as being similar to a "little United Nations” with Mexican-Americans, Negroes, and Filipinos constituting a large part of the population. ee :-:: that these groups have always lived in ony with out any degree of racial prejudice or bias in Delano until about two years ago when CESAR CHAVEZ as leader of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) took steps in behalf of his union which resulted in spliting up the Negro, Filipino, and Mexican-American segments of the community. GEE 22 5-r10<0 CHAVEZ as a "liar whose appointment to any type of federal position would be the greatest miscarriage of justice to the American people”, said that during the Christmas season of 1 3 e A, primarily through its affiliation with the California Migrant Ministry, publicly pictured the farm workers of the Delano area to be poverty stricken without Christmas trees, presents, or turkeys. He said as a result of this appeal to churches throughout the nation, turkeys, presents, food, and Christmas trees literall a oureg into the NFWA Headquarters at Delano. — said this was a tactic used by CHAVEZ in promoting = un ion and that a survey conducted by the County Welfare Department and local churches in Delano, disclosed only 45 families of farm workers in the area who needed Christmas assistance due to lack of employment. - op amrseceesed said that the California Migrant Ministry t e, has never conducted as much as a prayer, meeting much less a Sunday School or any church meeting. He said “it is not proper to misuse the cloth of the church in this manner for union purposes", 93 —s . ne a. Am 44 eg - te : oe . ae aS . . “ . aa, ye ew for ra Sage ~ oom ~ 7 i Ee nee “%, *. = soot Pas ae oe he ~ Te tee 1 1 GR ot ee Cee Roe at —_ = an ee * mye SM ae a ee an Ten oa re > t_ 1° — i ag °-* . “ obs!